TROUBLED WATERS - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
TROUBLED WATERS - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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100<br />
A REVIEW OF THE WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN WHALING ACTIVITIES<br />
Table 1 Animal welfare <strong>and</strong> the Schedule to the International<br />
Convention for the Regulation of Whaling<br />
Article Para Text<br />
III 6 The killing for commercial purposes of whales, except minke whales<br />
using the cold grenade harpoon shall be forbidden from the beginning<br />
of the 1980/81 pelagic <strong>and</strong> 1981 coastal seasons. The killing for<br />
commercial purposes of minke whales using the cold grenade<br />
harpoon shall be forbidden from the beginning of the 1982/83<br />
pelagic <strong>and</strong> the 1983 coastal seasons8 (Capture)<br />
.<br />
III 14 It is forbidden to take or kill suckling calves or female whales<br />
& accompanied by calves. [Paragraph 14 refers to baleen whales<br />
17 <strong>and</strong> paragraph 17 refers to sperm whales].<br />
VI 25a All contracting governments shall report to the Commission for all<br />
Information<br />
whale catchers operating in conjunction with factory ships <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong><br />
Required<br />
stations the following information:<br />
1) methods used to kill each whale, other than a harpoon, <strong>and</strong> in<br />
particular compressed air<br />
2) number of whales struck <strong>and</strong> lost<br />
25b A record similar to that described in sub-paragraph (a) of this<br />
paragraph shall be maintained by vessels engaged in “small-type<br />
whaling” operations <strong>and</strong> by native peoples taking species listed<br />
in paragraph 1, <strong>and</strong> all the information mentioned in the said subparagraph<br />
shall be entered therein as soon as available, <strong>and</strong><br />
forwarded by Contracting Governments to the Commission.<br />
VI 27 Notification shall be given in accordance with the provisions of<br />
Article VII of the Convention with regard to all factory ships <strong>and</strong><br />
catcher ships of the following statistical information:<br />
a) concerning the number of whales of each species taken, the<br />
number thereof lost, <strong>and</strong> the number treated at each factory<br />
ship or l<strong>and</strong> stations, <strong>and</strong> ...<br />
VI 28b The information required under paragraph (a)(2)(iii) should also be<br />
recorded together with the following information, in the log book<br />
format shown in Appendix A9 , <strong>and</strong> forwarded to the Commission...<br />
whalers, taking cetaceans under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission, must adhere.<br />
Furthermore, there is no enforcement of this data collection process. Therefore, any reporting<br />
undertaken in adherence to Article VI of the schedule is at the discretion of the whalers, or national<br />
inspectors onboard. There is also no independent verification mechanism for ensuring the quality<br />
<strong>and</strong> accuracy of these data.